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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World

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